Cultural Region/African
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Illegal
$24.99 Read moreA powerfully moving, award-winning graphic novel that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants from New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl gra
- Author: Colfer, Eoin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1492662143
- Language: English
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Safari, So Good! All about African Wildlife
$9.99 Read moreIn this latest installment of the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library, the Cat takes Sally and Nick to Africa–where they meet some really big cats–and all sorts of other animals, too, including elepha… [more below]
- Series: Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Worth, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0375866817
- Language: English
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Seaside Dream
$11.95 Add to cartIn this tender story of immigration, a young girl finds a way to give her grandmother the perfect present and the courage to plan a trip to her home country, Cape Verde.
Tomorrow is Grandma’s birthday,
- Author: Costa Bates, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1620142562
- Language: English
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The Ardent Swarm
$14.95 Add to cartFrom an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest.
Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to
- Author: Manai, Yamen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 154202045X
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Add to cartSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
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Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
$26.00 Read moreAward-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram, hailed as “the Indian successor to Kapuscinski” (Basharat Peer) and praised for “remarkable” (Jon Stewart), “excellent” (Fareed Zakaria), and “courageous and h… [more below]
- Author: Sundaram, Anjan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 164622115X
- Language: English
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Intellectual Warfare
$19.95 Read moreTestifying that the foundation of modern Western thought, theory, and practice can be traced back to ancient African thought, theory, and practice, this book exposes the African influence on Greek and… [more below]
- Author: Carruthers, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0883781808
- Language: English
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Elizabeti’s Doll
$11.95 Read moreA young Tanzanian girl finds a special doll, and realizes how much she loves the doll when she almost loses her.
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can car
- Series: Elizabeti
- Author: Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1584300817
- Language: English
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Juba Good
$9.95 Add to cartJuba, South Sudan.
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has spent eleven and a half months serving with the United Nations in the world’s newest country. He’s tired of the chaotic traffic and jostling crowds t- Series: Rapid Reads
- Author: Delany, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1459804902
- Language: English
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Dangerous Love
$18.99 Read moreFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past.
An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Be- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422663
- Language: English
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa
$18.99 Read moreFor more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundre
- Author: McKissack, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0805042598
- Language: English
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The Last Gift of the Master Artists
$29.99 Read moreThe Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country.
A boy and a girl me- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422795
- Language: English
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Here Is the African Savanna
$11.95 Read moreUsing cumulative verse, this colorful picture book introduces children to the lions, zebras, elephants, impala, hippos, trees and grasslands that make up the East African ecosystem, while giving young… [more below]
- Series: Web of Life #2
- Author: Dunphy, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0977379523
- Language: English
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
$17.00 Read moreA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and t
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159869
- Language: English
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By the Sea
$30.00 Read moreA masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it
On a late November- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 059371654X
- Language: English
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Song for Night
$14.95 Add to cart“Chris Abani might be the most courageous writer working right now. There is no subject matter he finds daunting, no challenge he fears. Aside from that, he’s stunningly prolific and writes like an an
- Author: Abani, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933354313
- Language: English
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Elephants Remember: A True Story
$19.95 Read moreFrom the author-illustrator of The Eye of the Whale (Tilbury House, 2013), this nonfiction picture book tells the story of Lawrence Anthony and the deep bond he forged with the matriarch of the herd h… [more below]
- Author: O’Connell, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0884489280
- Language: English
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The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case
$7.99 Read moreTHE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY – Young Readers
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe… [more below]- Series: Precious Ramotswe Mysteries for Young Readers #1
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307743896
- Language: English
